Practical notes and articles about semantic markup, forms, accessibility, browser behavior, and the continuing development of HTML.
A 1992 exchange shows early Web builders arguing over how people should ask a document a question, years before modern forms became the familiar answer.
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The compact graphic link is visible again in corners of the independent Web. This history separates the evidence from the origin myths.
Read article<time> element actually doesReadable dates and machine readable values can coexist. The element does not convert time zones or create event search features by itself.
Find on original siteInvoker commands let a button name its target and request certain dialog or popover actions in HTML. The boundaries of that support matter.
Find on original siteA label names an individual control. A fieldset and legend can preserve the question that a whole group of controls answers.
Find on original siteWhy a continuously maintained specification replaced the expectation of numbered editions, and what the modern doctype really signals.
Find on original site<label>A visible caption associated with a form control stores a useful relationship in the document, beyond its appearance on screen.
Find on original siteStart with a question, then follow the articles that make the underlying HTML clearer.
What elements and headings communicate about a document.
Start with<time> How controls, labels, fieldsets and legends fit together.
Start with form groupsWhere the HTML Standard comes from and how browsers put it to work.
Start with the standardOlder conventions and arguments that still illuminate the Web today.
Start with 88×31A useful article can begin the inquiry. These primary references help you check the rules, accessibility guidance, and your own markup.
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